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THE VALUE OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
May 15th is International Conscientious Objectors Day - a perfect opportunity to take some time to contemplate and appreciate the value of conscientious objection (CO). The very process of applying for status as a conscientious objector challenges the institution of war.
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War is Brain Damaging
"I was stunned to watch a female soldier who could no longer recognize her daughter.
These vets suffer from a particular kind of brain damage that results from repeated exposure to the concussive force of improvised explosive devices — I.E.D.’s — a regular event for troops traveling the roads in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Link to Full Article:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/war-is-brain-damaging.html
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"Their condition was more closely linked to an inner conflict rather than threats to their lives..."
A new study acknowledges PTSD is a result of moral injury.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2011-11-23/study-of-marines-ptsd/51386488/1?loc=interstitialskip |
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Wartime Killing May Raise Veterans' Thoughts of Suicide
Impact of deadly combat on mental health receives too little attention,
study indicates
Source: San Fransisco VA Medical Center.
MONDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) -- The experience of killing in war is strongly
linked with suicidal thoughts, according to a study of U.S. veterans of the Vietnam
War.
Researchers analyzed data from a survey of a nationally representative sample of
Vietnam War veterans and found that those with more killing experiences were twice
as likely to have suicidal thoughts as those with fewer or no experiences of
killing.
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Close Guantanamo Bay- A CO tells His Story
What do we want? Human Rights! When do we want them? Now!
Wednesday January 11, 2012 was a rainy, cold day in Washington DC. It was the kind of day you did not leave the warmth of your home unless you had to, unless there was something really important to do. It just so happened that there was something very important to do in Washington DC on Wednesday. There was a rally against Guantanamo Bay, torture, and indefinite detention.
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Honor Armistice Day
It was on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen that the guns fell silent on the Western Front in Europe. Many people have described this moment; one of the most poignant is by Kurt Vonnegut in his book Breakfast of Champions: “It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God.”
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